Saturday, December 30, 2006
its pretty late already, now 04:41 - 12/30/2006,currently listenin to butterfly lovers while i am typing this out ..couldn't find sun zi bing fa, think we left it at the old house,
still got quite some stuff there, including my
Rise and Fall of the Qin Dynasty ..
hmmm, was searching for sun zi bing fa when i came across
my old collection of scores ..
decided to tidy them up a bit, and add new scores to that collection ..
shall get a proper file for them soon ..
added 2 more pics as well ..
this would be all my grandmother's grandsons ..
besides the one in pink shirt, my eldest brother,
and the one in singlet smiling till all his teeth all showing haha,
my cousin and brother ..
the others are all flirts hahaha,
and all here are sons to let me see, 3 different women ..
starting from the one in pink shirt than going clockwise,
my eldest brother, melvin ..
my 2nd eldest male cousin, leslie ..
my 2nd elder brother marcus ..
my younger brother, martin ..
my eldest male cousin, leon ..
me the monkey ..
my younger cousin cum brother for the first 11 years of my life, shawn ..
some of you have seen him before, can you guess who is he ?
no prizes for correct guesses though ..
oh, that's pebbles when she was a puppy ..
foxy looking right, the ears and snout ..
hmmm, old collection of scores ..
used to kep even more, secondary school de ..
those like utopia, west side story and stuff, dumped them all in the end ..
kept those that i liked, and after a while started keep in scores when
i entered swo, cant find my don juan, carnival overture and others ..
first concert with swo, its in a file, just cant remember where is it ..
anyway here are some of them ..
Noah's ark, yesh it was played by the majority of a kind that was in the ark ..
i was no exception hahaha ..
this was one the choice piece ssw took for the NBC ..
titanic medley, got it from a friend from unity secondary,
i used it at that time to test whether my sight reading had improved ..
Polka "thunder & lighting" , the name is spelled wrongly,
i think it was twain who brought it up, cant really remember who exactly ..
lightning was spelled as lighting, at that time i was wondering what
on earth is Polka, and the only thing i could link it to,
was the brand selling those cans of coffee in 7-eleven ..
A Christmas Celebration became a medley of scoldings for me and company ..
Festive Overture wasn't very delightful for my fingers at that time haha ..
Algemiz was one of the first pieces that had me shitting bricks in sec school,
was worried sick whenever mr ng wanted to play algemiz ..
remember the Eb solo part on the first clar stand, i was still quite a timid chap
back then and playing it never failed to make me shiver, literally ..
practice that part like mad and i only managed to come in the 3rd time
mr ng repeated the piece for one rehearsal, was all over the place or
failed to enter for the rehearsals before, luckily the higher part was
brought down an octave, made life easier ..
Slavonic Dances Op46 N0.2, cant remember where did i get this copy from,
either belongs to NYP or SWO or just a photocopied set ..
but i liked that song ..
Entornos haha, that picture of mainly triplets belongs to the last part of Entornos,
was one of the parts that i loved working on, trying to get the tonguing and stuff
on the right spot, hitting what seemed like the sky at that time,
and yet trying to produce and maintain the texture of sound i wanted,
was all fun and enjoyment to me, they were a challenge ..
when the band reached coral, usually i got lost there hahah ..
Concerto for Bass clarinet and band, was one hell of an unforgetable concerto ahaha,would never forget that concerto with thomas hahah ..
but it was the first time i heard a bass clarinet run all the up and down and
it was the first time that i ever heard of a bass clarinet concerto ..
2 thumbs up to the man, thomas ..
Highlights from Chess, i think, had this particular part in 3/4
with very simple rhythm, like quaters and halfs, yet it wasn;t that easy to bring the life out of it, and we needed to work together as one to do so ..
never really was satisfied by that section, so simple yet so complex ..
Les miserable, was really the english word miserable for me,
that included one certain section of the piece where there were so many sharps
out of no where, miserable miserable miserable, but it's a nice piece ..
Concerto for Trumpet and symphonic band,
think on concert day my stand made a wrong entry or was it failed to enter ?
cant remember but it was a bad mistake, should be on concert day ..
the scores found in the picture, the one with canon in D, fantasy-pieces,
they were given to me by an ex swo member ..
Concerto for Oboe by haydn, i think this would be concerto i loved playing most,
the band part i mean haha, very relaxing, 3rd clarinet stand that is ..
and also in the last pic, dont needa say much, its a piece most of us know very well ..
for those who dont know, La Passio De Crist,
when translated would be, The Passion of Christ ..
this is the piece where my right little pinky jammed the most ..
imagine doing running notes and you find you cant run
anymore because your pinky decided to become stiff, irritating ..
okie its 05:33 already, blogging helps kill time ..
gotta take my medicine after this, than i would turn in ..
sorry if the previous posts were negative ..
didnt mean to spill it out on to you readers ya ..
God bless, cheers ..
her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 04:30
